The Toronto and East York community council balked Tuesday at betting on a downtown casino.

Councillors asked city officials for reports on the implications of a casino if it were dropped in Toronto’s core — but not before slamming the idea again.

The community council also asked for more information around 1903 legislation pertaining to the use of the Exhibition lands — one possible site of a Toronto casino.

Anti-casino Councillor Adam Vaughan said it is clear the physical impact of a casino will be “extraordinarily disruptive."

“We’ve asked for that to be quantified so that people understand the challenge of the activity a casino generates and if it doesn’t generate that problem, it is because it is going bankrupt,” Vaughan added.

“All the hosting fees are best-case scenarios of a casino maxing out its revenue stream so if it doesn’t fill the 11,000-car parking garage, if the slot machines don’t generate 13.6 car movements per day ... if we don’t destroy the downtown transportation grid for a casino, we don’t make any money.

“The only way to make money is to destroy the city.”

Vaughan claimed a casino in the Port Lands would require a $1-billion parking garage, a casino at Exhibition Place would wipe out the Canadian National Exhibition and a casino at the Metro Convention Centre site would kill the Entertainment District.

“It’s the wrong way to move this city forward,” Vaughan told the community council.

While several residents appeared before the community council to speak against a casino, Mike Yorke of the Carpenters Union Local 27 came out in support of an integrated resort casino in the city.

“We think that this proposal can really add to the life of the city,” Yorke said. “As well as being a great job generator — certainly in the construction industry — but in many spin-off and subsequent industries as well.”